Dia ChangeLog report for Mon Aug 26 07:41:14 2002 (UTC)

2002-08-26 Thread Dia ChangeLog Daemon
Snapshots available at http://www.crans.org/~chepelov/dia/snapshots *** Recent ChangeLog entries: --- ChangeLog.previous 2002-08-21 09:24:15.0 +0200 +++ dia-cvs-snapshot/ChangeLog 2002-08-26 09:41:20.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,34 @@ +2002-08-26 Cyrille Chepelov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +

Re: Strange success story

2002-08-26 Thread Tim Ellis
> Using epsffit to turn an EPS file into PS (the printing gave > weird headaches) I managed to get some quite nice output. This reminds me of a tangent about Dia. Here where I work I use Dia to create the database ERD which is a big, hairy thing but is a useful document for programmers to look a

[gimpwin-dev] glib under mingw32 debian cross compiler, problem with windres : gmodule-win32res.lo: file not recognized: File format not recognized

2002-08-26 Thread Tor Lillqvist
James Michael DuPont writes: > Hopefully we can get all the cool gnome apps running under windows Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't it go like this: GNOME is intended to provide on Unix some of the (high-level) features in Windows, that on Windows are implemented with stuff like COM and OLE

Re: Strange success story

2002-08-26 Thread Andrew Ferrier
On 2002-08-26 at 10:46 -0400, Tim Ellis wrote: > Acrobat Reader is a pretty common install. Interestingly, EPS > files and most every other sort of vector graphic file > format, including PS, aren't viewable on Microsoft systems > without special software. You're probably already aware, but Ghos

Re: Strange success story

2002-08-26 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote: > On 2002-08-26 at 10:46 -0400, Tim Ellis wrote: > >> Acrobat Reader is a pretty common install. Interestingly, EPS >> files and most every other sort of vector graphic file >> format, including PS, aren't viewable on Microsoft systems >> without special

Re: Strange success story

2002-08-26 Thread Andrew Ferrier
On 2002-08-26 at 15:21 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: > > You're probably already aware, but Ghostview etc. do a > > pretty good job of viewing both EPS and PS on Windows these > > days. It is of course fair to say that they are probably > > not as widely installed as Acrobat Reader, but they are > >

Re: Strange success story

2002-08-26 Thread Alan Horkan
> 'Twould be nice to have PDF output as well. Anybody knowledgeable of PDF? there are plans to make gnome print not require any gnome libs and work with just gtk. gnome print includes print to file ps/pdf. ask chema for current status. there are several ways to convert PS to pdf, some more e

Re: [OT]: PS --> PDF converter

2002-08-26 Thread Tim Ellis
> Personally I'd > suggest that if PDF output were to be added, that dia put it > through ps2pdf or something instead of doing it itself. Mind > you, I've never found any PS to PDF converter entirely > satisfactory. I guess I've found ImageMagick to be less than entirely satisfactory, too, but it

RE: WIN32 compilation, the spirit of GNU software.

2002-08-26 Thread Mike Garnsey
my 2 cents... 1. Hans, thanks for the outstanding work you've done on porting Dia to win32. On behalf of Dia win32 users and developers such as myself, I sincerely hope we don't lose your expertise! 2. Whether its Mike or Hans (or whoever) that has the inclination to make the win32 port eas

Re: [Mingw-users] [gimpwin-dev] glib under mingw32 debian cross compiler, problem with windres : gmodule-win32res.lo: file not recognized: File format not recognized

2002-08-26 Thread Al Stevens
> GNOME is intended to provide on Unix some of the (high-level) features > in Windows, that on Windows are implemented with stuff like COM and > OLE (I am really not an expert in this issues, so bear with me if I > babble). It does this using CORBA at the low level. > > Why would one then need to

Re: [gimpwin-dev] glib under mingw32 debian cross compiler, problem with windres : gmodule-win32res.lo: file not recognized: File format not recognized

2002-08-26 Thread James Michael DuPont
--- Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Michael DuPont writes: > > Hopefully we can get all the cool gnome apps running under windows > > Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't it go like this: > > GNOME is intended to provide on Unix some of the (high-level) > features > in Windows

Re: thanks for tedia2sql

2002-08-26 Thread Tim Ellis
> Thanks for tedia2sql, I used it with pgsql and it's > very useful. Great! I've had about five reports of tedia2sql working. Two people actively trying to get bugs solved for them, both of which seem to've worked their way to resolution. One person trying to add a large feature set to tedia2sql

Question about the polyline object...

2002-08-26 Thread Michael H. Voase
Gday, First up, thanks for creating a great tool. I am currently using it for schematic diagrams and I find dia quite usefull. However, the niceties aside, I am trying to get the xfig importer back into shape but I have run across a snag. Currenly the xfig importer doesnt *see

Re: [OT]: PS --> PDF converter

2002-08-26 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On lun, 2002-08-26 at 20:44, Tim Ellis wrote: > > Personally I'd > > suggest that if PDF output were to be added, that dia put it > > through ps2pdf or something instead of doing it itself. Mind > > you, I've never found any PS to PDF converter entirely > > satisfactory. > > I guess I've found Im

Re: Question about the polyline object...

2002-08-26 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002, à 01:47:21PM +1000, Michael H. Voase a écrit: > The same problem seems to apply to beziergons and just about any > object that can have a variable number of points. I suggest you have a look at the recent CVS -- or at the very least, to 0.90, which is significa